Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-22
HOME AND FARM.


Vanilla beans split and boiled in
milk make more delicate and cheaper
davoring for ice cream than the
ooughten extract.
Apple water. Roast some half
dozen apples, when cooked pour over
Them pint of boiling water. Mash
and strain them. Add sugar or honey.
Boston Budget.
Ripe cantaloupes will easily become
detached from the vines. while green
ones must be pulled off. They can not
always be known to be ripe by the APP
pearance.
The bottom of an old key or but
your kettle on Have one or two hang
ing near the dish table. Make hole
and put string through to hang it by.
"A kind voice is like lark's song
to n hearth and home. Boys and girls,
use your guests voice at home. Watch
it day by day, for it will be worth
more to you in time to come than the
best pearl hid in the sea-
A pound of copperas, costing three
cents, in bucket of water. sprinkl ed
from a watering pot in the pig-pen.
will prove d cheap and excellent disin-
fectant, and will also largely assist in
preventing disease.
Success in farming may be said to
depend on few things: rich soil, or
soil made rich by the proper manures;
the best stock and the best seeds; the
best cultivation and the best care. and
doing every thing at the right time.
When chickens sleep, droop, fall
away and die. the only thing to do is
to burn your chicken coops. They are
full Of coop lice. which are each night
drawing the blood from your chickens
and harassing the life out of them. If
your coops are old. worn out things,
burn them. Remove your chickens to
clean. new quarters and feed them on
a meat and vegetable diet till they
have recovered. -Fdrnl and Home.
Prof. Tyndall has proved that at
mospheric germs can not pass through
a layer of cotton, and it is now said
that preserved fruit may be kept in
perfect condition by covering the jar
with cotton batting. Putrification is
caused by minute atmospheric germs.
They are expelled by cooking. and the
cotton batting prevents their return
when the fruit cools. -LaGiamapolis
Sentinel.
Fresh MackeraL Clean the fish,
scald bunch of herbs and chop them
fine. and put them with one ounce of
butter and three tablespoonfuls of soup
stock into stew-pan- Lay in the
mackerel and simmer gently for ten
minutes. Lift them out upon q hot
dish; dredge little flour and add salt,
cayenne. little lemon juice, and
finally two tablespoonfuls of cream;
let these just boil. and pour over the
fish.-Bosson Budget.
The following IS given as 4 mos
quito remedy: Roll piece of aaper
around lead pencil, so as to fdsp a
case; fill this with very dry PyretfHhisi m
powder, putting in a little at a time
and pressing down with the lead pencil.
Set in a cup of dry sand or something
TO hold it erect. and an hour before
going to bed Gloss .he room and burn
one of these cartrid ges. A single one
will be sufi Gent for a small room; q
large one would require two.-Tudian-
dpolts Journal.
For making dressing for sliced
tomatoes, beat two eggs well together,
add one teaspoonful of sugar, one
fourth of a teaspoonful of salt. the
same of prepared mustard, one table
spoonful of vinegar. Place the bowl
containing it in q basin of boiling
water, and stir till about the thickness
. of cream. 1t will take about five
minutes if the bowl is thick and the
water boils at the right time. Cool
and use as needed. indianapolis Jour-
nal
Corn Bread in Cups.-Two and a
half cups of Indian meal, one cup of
flour. three tablespoonfuls of corn
starch. three tablespoonfuls of short
ening, three eggs. one tablespoonful of
soda and three and a half cups of thick.
sour milk, and salt at discretion; it
should be a thin batter; bake quickly
in small tins OF cups 1t is best to
soak the meal all night, or at least
several hours in the sour milk, addin g
the other ingredients just before bak-
ing.-Erchange.